If you have seen any of the demos for the Windows Phone 7 you may have seen or heard about the concept of its Toast Notification. A Toast Notification is a way for the device to receive a message which originates from some webservice and can be used to display useful information to a user. ...

Before our WP7 detour , we were deep in the thick of Actions . I mentioned that there was one more compelling feature of the Actions concept called Coroutines. If you haven’t heard that term before, here’s what wikipedia * has to say: In computer science , coroutines are program components...

As we get closer to the launch of WP7 (Windows Phone 7) more and more developers are starting to play around with the SDK and build out applications. Since WP7 supports Silverlight 3+ (3+ means it is basically Silverlight 3 w/ some tweaks to work in a multi-touch environment) it is logical to think...

Hopefully, previous articles have you up to speed on what Caliburn.Micro is , its basic configuration , and how to take advantage of a few of its features . In this part, I want to talk about some WP7 specifics issues. It’s unfortunate that I have to call out WP7, but your going to find that while...

If you are building out a WP7 (or just a standard Silverlight application) and you are following the MVVM design pattern you may be a left wondering how to handle the selectionChanged event in a Listbox without the use of a code behind. For this post we are using the MVVMLight framework to accomplish...

While working on an application targeted towards WP7 I wanted to have the application change style resource which was attached to a border element based on a value (aka a status) in my view model. After searching around for a bit I was not able to come up w/ a complete end to end solution, only bits...

If you are trying to create a WP7 (or any silverlight project for that matter) and you are trying to access a WCF web service you may receive the following error when you try to create an instance of the WCF service. Cannot find 'ServiceReferences.ClientConfig' in the .xap application package...